In the TV sitcom Father, Dear Father,Patrick Cargill played a divorced author who finds himself responsible for the welfare of his two irrepressibly mischievous teenage daughters (Natasha Pyne (left) and Ann Holloway who were both in their mid 20s at the time).
A couple of years ago now I uploaded this very cute threat from the movie version which has garnered a helluva lot of hits on Youtube – more than many of my clips with actual spanking in them.
I knew there were more such moments in the TV series, but while it was a ratings topper in its day, it never seemed to get repeated or made available as a dvd until recently when the complete set was finally released. So after some consultation with Harry, I ordered series 4.
Whilst almost every episode of FDF had spanking potential, the Network DVD write up for The Reluctant Runaway would attract your attention even if you didn’t have prior knowledge:
The Reluctant Runaway: There comes a time in every young girl’s life when her father puts his foot down with a heavy hand.
Bit of a mixed metaphor there but sure enough this episode is awash with talk of “smacked bottoms” and ends with a scene that is almost identical to the clip from the film. So now, for the first time since a rather heady July evening in 1971, I can enjoy the edited highlights from The Reluctant Runaway,
The annual No Pants Subway Ride, is organized by the New York City collective Improv Everywhere. Participants are supposed to act as if there is nothing strange as they enter a subway car without pants in the middle of winter. If asked, they claim that they simply “forgot” their pants.
It all started as a small prank with seven guys and has grown into an international celebration, with dozens of cities around the world taking part each January. Breaking a social taboo and seeing the reaction of people not aware of the event generally makes it fun for participants and photographers alike.
So let Harry be your guide as he takes you down in the subway on No Pants Ride day and brings you the highlights from the past few years of the event:
Some of the most enjoyable images show the participants in everyday underwear as they are going about their everyday business. This is in the spirit of the instructions for the event: riders are asked not to wear comedy underwear which indicates that they are taking part in a prank.
In practice there are a lot of slogans plastered across pert rears which are obviously meant to be seen and, in the case of the girl in the purple panties below, impossible to argue with!
The undies worn by the ladies in this group are less attention-seeking and a nice range of colours and modern styles are on display.
Occasionally there’s even more to be seen, though the
organizers do ask riders to avoid excessive exhibitionism. (Thongs are specifically banned.)
The event has a spin off too in the shape of its summer time cousin, the New York Underwear Run.
And just occasionally, there’s a bit of bottom smacking involved. The girl with the Cookie Monster panties has a very nice bottom.
And before the day is out, that bottom is going to be smacked.
And here’s a paddling, though with a singularly unsuitable instrument of punishment!
But at least it seems to have made some kind of an impact on its target…
At the end of the journey pants are hastily pulled on and normal decorum is restored.
‘Thank goodness I’ve got through the No Pants Subway Ride without anyone photographing my bottom!’
John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is already known to us thanks to this 2008 post by Chross. It includes links to a couple of clips from the two-handed play which might be better known, from a female perspective, as Roberta and the Deep Red Bottom!
Two troubled people meet in a bar in the Bronx and spend the night together. The morning after Roberta works through her issues with Danny in a scene which veers between romantic comedy and heavy psychotherapy.
Danny is knocked back when he tells Roberta that she is forgiven for her past sins:
“Who do you think you are? A priest?”
Losing patience, Danny punishes her with an otk spanking that is intended to lift the burden of guilt that she has been carrying since childhood. Afterwards Danny consoles her and Roberta thanks him; her throbbing bottom a reminder that she can now move on in her life.
Originally produced off-Broadway in 1984, the play has been performed quite regularly ever since and is a favourite with students in theatre workshops and drama classes. It’s so popular in fact that I’m very pleased to be able to present a showcase of no less than FIVE NEW clips which Harry has tracked down for us.
The pretty actress playing Roberta here is wearing skin-tight LEGGINGS! Only four smacks but very solid in impact and definitely NO PADDING!
This 2011 clip is distinct from the others as the sparring couple are played by middle-aged actors. It’s also a filmed version not a “live” performance.
Julia Smyth makes an older but very attractive Roberta in a scene that is lighter in tone and wouldn’t be too out of place in a 1960s sit-com. The director annoyingly focuses on Danny’s face during part of the spanking but overall this is an excellent scene.
Some of the build up is missing but 6 hard spanks are applied to the seat of Alessija Lause’s sweat pants in this very recent production.
The German/Croatian took the best actress award at last summer’s Edinburgh Fringe for her performance.
Just to make up for the last one I’ve included more build up this time. The actress playing Roberta wears jeans and is a real spitfire who needs taming. She finally gets just that at 2.35.
This is included as an example of how NOT to do it. It’s from a drama class and the lack of a chair for the spanker to sit on is probably to blame for this disaster as much as anything.
One final and very interesting piece of news about this play: There is a current production at the Crown City Theatre in Los Angeles, California and Roberta is played by Juliet Landauwho played Drusilla in Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Harry says:
“Sadly I haven’t (yet) found any photos or videos of her being spanked!”
There are photos showing that she wears some nice lingerie (not necessarily during the spanking scene though).
The promo includes an interesting interview with Juliet Landau and has lots of background about the play and her relationship with it.
She also has some helpful advice:
The Crown City Theatre is at 11031 Camarillo Street in North Hollywood, near where Lankershim and Camarillo cross. We play Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 7 PM. The show runs about an hour and fifteen minutes. I am loving the experience, so I hope lots more people come to share in it?
The production has been extended to the 29th January so if you’re able to get down there don’t delay. Or forget to post a comment here afterwards!
Well 2011 ended with a bang and I don’t just mean the fireworks – this site’s viewing stats were at an all time high! So what better time to freshen the place up with a new design and banner image? Fetish superstar Amber Dawnis the latest in a distinguished line of celebrities to find themselves reclining artfully across The Spank Statement header. The bespoke picture that Amber sent me was revealed last year in this post. (Applications are now open to anyone who wants to submit a banner for 2013 by the way!)
2011 ended with a personal triumph for Amber too. In December, she achieved a long held ambition by becoming a magazine cover star for the first time.
The awesome top picture was taken by Holly Randall and appeared in an earlier edition of Hustler’s Taboo magazine in 2010. Holly Randall’s work has been featured on The Spank Statement before as you can see here.
I don’t know about you but I’ve got a really good feeling about 2012, and I hope to carry on bringing you the kind of spanking bloggery that no self-respecting cyber perv would want to miss. And with a super hot curvy redhead at the top you’ve got to admit that every post in 2012 will at least get off to a good start!
As an extra little treat this holiday time, I’ve edited together a compilation from the movie version of TV sit-com Bless This House (1972). It’s intended as an homage to the actress Sally Geeson as much as anything else. There are three excerpts which together make a complete little story climaxing with a nice threat that hasn’t been posted before:
Sally sporting a blue bikini gets into a scrape involving a garden hose and a very wet neighbour. There’s a close up shot of her bottom as her flighty antics spiral out of control and she runs to ask her father for help – disturbing his Sunday afternoon nap.
Sally leads an environmental protest and ends up on the wrong side of daddy yet again. (includes more views of Sally’s bottom this time in purple flares)
The final reckoning involves just the threat of a spanking but it’s a good one. It’s met with defiance at first but she sure makes a quick exit when it looks like he might be about to act on it! (skip to 3.25 if you just want to see this)
Hope you can see why Sally made such a big impression on me when I was a kid anyway. She was actually 23 when she played Sid James’ teenage daughter in this movie.
If you happen to be in the mood for some more bottom-warming 1970s nostalgia at Christmas you could watch this previously posted clip which comes from just a year later than Bless This House and is also a cute threat from a movie version of a popular tv comedy.
Family based British sit-coms provided ample opportunities and near misses down the years but nothing in the way of actual spankings until, most unexpectedly, My Family, in 2011!
Bless this bottom: Sally ‘n Sid (Sid is under the newspaper!)
Hope you all have a fun and festive holiday period. This stellar Santa spanking “Christmas card” that Harry sent me is now passed on to all readers, followers and contributors – with best wishes and compliments of the season.
It’s always a thrill to introduce a brand new scene to the canon of movie spankings especially one that’s waited 70 odd years to be “discovered”.
This Hungarian screen spanking is from 1938 and was found by Harry.
Antal Pager is a small landowner who begins his conquest of the spoiled daughter of a wealthy builder (Ida Turay) by spanking her when she berates him for not getting her car back on the road quickly enough. (She doesn’t know he owns a bit of property eagerly sought by her dad’s corporation.)
Ida Turay was the star of the original stage production of Janika in which she cross-dresses as a boy to win back her estranged husband – earning a sound spanking as an (un)fortunate side effect of the deception.
The part was written by her real life husband Istvan Bekeffy, and she later appeared in the movie version. So we now know that this 1949 scene is her second screen spanking by which time she was in her 40s.
